Google Search Rides From The Custom Shop
Google plans to start placing links to more details on how they have customized a given set of search results for visitors, in the name of demonstrating why they chose those results.
Olympics Rings Up China Censorship Deal
Internet access for reporters covering the Summer Olympics in China suffers the usual blocking instead of the open surfing the press expected to find; they can thank Olympic Committee members for this.
Wu: Watch Out for OPEC 2.0
All the big newspapers have an editorial about Net Neutrality today, and the New York Times seems to be the only one running anything on the pro-side. Net Neutrality visionary (he coined the phrase) Tim Wu’s editorial, entitled OPEC 2.0, compares bandwidth to oil—a necessary good tightly controlled by a few powerful entities. Wu’s thesis:
Online Viewing Becoming A TV Substitute
A higher percentage of people are going online to watch primetime TV shows, according to a new report from Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI).More than twenty percent of people view some amount of primetime television online. Within the group of online viewers, 50 percent are watching programming as it becomes available and are using the computer as replacement for the television set. The other 50 percent are using the Internet to watch previous programs they missed, or to re-watch clips of episodes they have already seen.
YouTube Partner Program Spreads To Spain, Brazil
Those credit card commercials aren’t lying; the best things in life tend not to connect directly to money. Something that gives out cash can qualify as "darn good," though, and people in Spain and Brazil should be happy to hear that the YouTube Partner Program has spread to their countries.
Wall Street Journal Stabs At Net Neutrality
It’s interesting, but not surprising, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is the target of a scathing editorial by the Wall Street Journal. He’s an easy and popular target these days from both sides of just about any issue involving the FCC. He stinks. Everybody knows it.
UK Hacker Loses Extradition Case
A British man accused of hacking into the computer systems of the U.S. military and NASA lost his appeal today against extradition to the U.S. where he will stand trial.Gary McKinnon, 42, attempted to appeal his transfer to the U.S. to be tried for what has been called "the biggest military hack of all time" by taking his case to Britain’s highest court, the House of Lords.
Start Sending Notifications Not Emails
How much of the email in your inbox fits into the category of a person or company notifying you about something?
Google’s Favoritism Makes Knoll SEO Magnet
Author and search optimization expert Aaron Wall headed to Google’s Knol, as did many SEO professionals, to create a page. He doesn’t sound happy about what he found.
Amazon Introduces Two New Payment Services
Amazon.com has introduced two new online payment services that other retailers can use on their Web sites.The new payment services, Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay offer businesses another payment option besides PayPal and Google Checkout.